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Gathering the Desert
by Nabhan, Gary Paul (signed); Paul Mirocha (illustrator)
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0816509352
- ISBN 13
- 9780816509355
- Seller
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La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. Signed by both Nabhan and the illustrator Paul Mirocha on the title page. Uncommon signed. Nabhan's second book, the winner of the John Burroughs Medal in natural history writing. Includes twelve chapters on different, bountiful desert plants and their uses, and the book is arranged by the seasons, three plants to a season. A fine copy in white cloth with a gilt title, with peach endpapers and a previous owner's embossed stamp on the half title page (Roger W. Lidman). In a near fine jacket that is about fine except for a little sticker residue to lower spine that might wipe off.
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- Bookseller
- Rural Hours
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1262
- Title
- Gathering the Desert
- Author
- Nabhan, Gary Paul (signed); Paul Mirocha (illustrator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0816509352
- ISBN 13
- 9780816509355
- Publisher
- University of Arizona Press
- Place of Publication
- Tucson
- Date Published
- 1985
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Rural Hours
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La Grande, Oregon
About Rural Hours
Rural Hours (formerly Wood + River = Books, est. 2019) specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, environmental literature, and contemporary essay, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. We draw our name from the popular-but-then-forgotten book by Susan Fenimore Cooper (published in 1850), generally considered the first work of environmental creative nonfiction by a woman in the U.S. We are interested in challenging and expanding the canon of environmental literature and finding books that tell remarkable stories and illuminate the tradition of writing about place and natural history.
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- Half Title
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- Fine
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- Title Page
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
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